Dragons : The Dragon Hunt

46. The Sail (Part 3) - Dusty!!!

"DUSTY!!! ", I shouted at the top of my voice, as I saw Dusty being thrown away on the sea, my heart pounded very heavily.

I began to panic but I calmed myself by breathing heavily, I thought of something to save Dusty and to steady the boat into Its way. I searched around the area to grab something like a plank to stuck it on the wheel, I saw some wood behind from Dusty's work several hours ago. I hurriedly grabbed it and stuck it on the wheel, I rushed outside to check Dusty....

Heavy rainwater poured towards me, I could barely see several meters away, the rains are very strong, like dropping a rock on your head from above. I went to the edge of the boat where I called Dusty.

"Dusty?!?! ", I roared at the sea, hoping that Dusty could shout back to me to locate him using his voice, "Dusty you there?! ", I shouted again, this time I heard a faint voice not too far from the boat...

"Dennis... ", The weak voice said, I knew its Dusty, so I hurriedly jumped to the water and swam 35 meters West of the boat, the faint voice of Dusty is still calling me.

"Dennis... Help.... me... ", As I swam as fast as I can, the waves hardly splashed around me, so I can't gain balance and always drove me underwater. Luckily I could hold my breath in more than two minutes so it didn't matter if I was inderwater for just a minute. After several minutes, I finally found the body of Dusty, he was part unconscious. I grabbed him by hooking my arm on his left arm, below armpits to get a grip on him. While my other hand is paddling towards the boat, the boat is too far from us, the huge waves splashing to us is driving us underwater. I still made it up to the surface to get some air, but the splashing waves and the current is hurdling us farther form the boat.

Then, another huge wave sended us more deep underwater, I didn't have time to catch my breath, I still have 30 seconds to get on the Surface, but we were submerged 10 meters below. I grabbed Dusty and swam towards the surface, when I almost reached the,  surface, I ran of air and choked, I was blurring off. When I was almost passing out, I remember Hiccup said about being a Hybrid Night Fury...

'Focus yourself Dennis, focus on being a hybrid and your wings will spread out... '

I focused myself (even though I am almost passing out) in being a Hybrid Night Fury, after a few seconds I completely passed out. But I felt something was coming out of my back, it was my wings, when my wings was completely out, I opened my eyes and quickly dove to Dusty, I didn't breath for a minute even though I don't have no oxygen. As I finally reached Dusty, I grabbed him and quickly rose to the surface, this time, I flew above the sea. I flapped my wings as I hovered just a few meters above the water, the boat was 200 meters from us. I flew fast towards the boat for Dusty will be given first aid.

"Dusty, hang in there buddy!! Hang in there", I exclaimed at the unconscious  body of Dusty, as I flapped my wings more harder. After 30 seconds, we finally arrived the boat, I quickly ran below deck and put Dusty's unconscious body on the floor. Technically, I was panicking that time, I was so afraid that I would lose him. But I remembered the basic CPR that I learnt by myself..

I tried pumping Dusty's chest multiple times, I checked his pulse on his neck, there was one, I pumped his chest multiple time again. Suddenly, Dusty gained his consciousness and coughed sea water...

"Dusty! You alright?! ", I worriedly exclaimed at him, as he coughed more sea water and breathed deeply

"I am.... A-Alright... De-Dennis", He stammered, his voice were trembling due to the coldness that crept to his body when he wss unconscious.

"Wait here", I said, as I went back to the bridge and got some blankets and towels for Dusty, I also grabbed a candle lamp for him to heat himself up. I went back to Dusty below deck and I saw him sat down leaning on the wall, his arms was wrapped around himself, his body was shaking. I hurriedly covered him with the blanket and and lit the candle lamp, I sat in front of him and raised our hands on the lamp...

"Hey Dennis, t-thanks for saving me", Dusty implied, he was still shaking due to the coldness.

"Don't thank me yet Dusty, were still in the storm", I said as I noticed Dusty was staring hardly at me, he has his eyes widened.

"Den... You're eyes, they are... Slits!! With your wings!!  ", Dusty exclaimed, he was terrified that he saw my eyes in slits forbthe first time.

"Wh-what? ", I stammered, I looked away from Dusty in a shame way, "Is it good for me? ", I asked him.

"It's okay bud, It's your hybrid instincts. I will be get used to it", Dusty smiled at me, as I finally recovered from the cold and finally retracted my wings, and I am back to human form.

"Den, we are still in course right? ", Dusty asked me, as he finally stood up and walked weakly at me.

"Dusty, were still in course, you should not force yourself. You should rest first here, you need to recover from the cold that you've caught when you ar thrown at the sea", I urged Dusty and I stood up, walkong towards the door, he sighed and finally sat down, he stared at me again..

"Den.. Thank Thor your eyes is back to normal. Do not worry buddy, I'll be okay here", he replied to me, as he finally took another deep breath and closed hiss eyes shut.

"Be better Dusty, you should take a good rest for the night", I smiled at him, as I finally went to the bridge to control the boat manually. The rainfall was only light now, waves is not high anymore like the condition a while ago. I finally saw the sky, the storm is passing out, when I arrived at the bridge, I finally removed the plank stuck on the wheel and finally controlled it manually.

-Dusty's POV-

3 hours later

I finally woke up about three hours later, I was thankful to Dennis that he saved me. I went to the bridge to see him, I noticed that the sky was night, probably 8 PM. I finally recovered from the cold that I caught a while ago when I was thrown in the sea. I saw Dennis controlling the boat shen I arrived at the bridge, he was still alittle wet when I saw him, he didn't changed his clothes. Dennis saw me arrive on the bridge.

"Hey Dennis, you alright? ", I asked him worriedly, as he nodded in a yes manner and looked back at the sea. The boat has shone its fog light in the front, I was now dry, I am really hoping that I didn't catch hypothermia.

"I am good Dusty", Dennis replied, "How about you? You recovered from the cold? ", He asked me back, I still held my blanket around me to gain more heat.

"I guess so, I am okay now", I replied back

"Thank Thor for that", He said in relief, as we heard a clanking on the back side of the boat which caught our attention.

"Do you hear that? ", Dennis said, as he raised his right hand to stop the conversation.

"I hear it", I answered, "What is it? "

"I hope its not bad again", Dennis implied..

-Continued-